Hellboy: The Bride of Hell
by Roq

Writer: Mike Mignola
Artist: Richard Corben
Publisher: Dark Horse Comic
Length: One shot

Investigating the disspearance of an American student brings Hellboy face to face with an ancient order of knights and the demon king they wronged during the Crusades.

Much like Mignola and Corben's Eisner Award winning effort on Hellboy: The Crooked Man, the team supreme puts out another fantastic story in the one shot Hellboy: The Bride of Hell. Set in 1985 the BPRD (Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense) is asked by the high ups in the US Government to search for a missing American teenager in Europe. Her dad is a high ranking Zinco-Davis executive and has the clout to get the BPRD on the case. It's good to have connections, no? So HB gets on the job and tracks her to the desert near the Holy Land. Mignola brings in an ancient sect of Knights, a King of Hell, the bride, a ghost and HB and mixes them all up into an amazing stew or paranormal goodness. Again, Corben's art is setting a new standard. The style is gritty but clean and definitely all his own. No slight to Mignola but I could have these two collaborate on Hellboy stories till Anung Un Rama unlocks the gate of the apocalypse and I wouldn't miss Mignola's art one bit. If you like Hellboy and the continued expansion of his universe pick this one up. You won't be sorry.

5 out of 5!